Upset

Definition: Upset

Upset

Adjective

1. Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; "too upset to say anything"; "spent many disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son's leaving home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents"; "a worried frown"; "one last worried check of the sleeping children".

2. Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset".

3. Used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win; "the Bills' upset victory over the Houson Oilers".

4. Mildly physically distressed; "an upset stomach".

5. Having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom; "an overturned car"; "the upset pitcher of milk"; "sat on an upturned bucket".

Noun

1. An unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me".

2. The act of disturbing the mind or body; "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living".

3. Condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time".

4. The act of upsetting something; "he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed".

5. An improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath".

Verb

1. Disturb the balance or stability of; "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries".

2. Cause to lose one's composure.

3. Move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought".

4. Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase".

5. Form metals with a swage.

6. Defeat suddenly and unexpectedly; "The foreign team upset the local team".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "upset" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Mining

Slang

Transportation

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Synonyms: Upset

Depression

Overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears.

Overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation.

Destruction

Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.

Disrepute

Upset, throw off one's center; discompose, disconcert; put to the blush; (humble).

Excitation

Absorb, rivet the attention; sink into the mind, sink into the heart; prey on the mind, distract; intoxicate; overwhelm, overpower; bouleverser, upset, turn one's head.

Success

Silence, quell, nonsuit, checkmate, upset, confound, nonplus, stalemate, trump; baffle; (hinder); circumvent, elude; trip up, trip up the heels of; drive into a corner, drive to the wall; run hard, put one's nose out of joint.

Crosswords: Upset

Marion, listen to me, listen to me. You're very upset right now and I don't think you realize what you're saying (Eyes Wide Shut; writing credit: Arthur Schnitzler; Stanley Kubrick)

I understand you're very upset. (Mission: Impossible; writing credit: Bruce Geller; David Koepp)

Well, now you can be upset. (Stuart Little 2; writing credit: E.B. White; Douglas Wick)

I don't know why he's so upset. It's only a couple of carrots (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Dad, I don't want to upset you, but my left breast is developing at a significantly faster rate that my right (My Girl; writing credit: Laurice Elehwany. Starring Dan Aykroyd as Harry Sultenfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly DeVoto, Macaulay Culkin as Thomas J. Sennett, and Anna Chlumsky as Vada Sultenfuss.)

There's plenty more don't get upset (Good thing; performing artist: Fine Young Cannibals)

Why did you, how could you, get upset (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT)

Papa I know you're going to be upset (Papa Don't Preach; performing artist: Kelly Osbourne)

So don't be upset when you're broke and you're done, cause I'ma be the one 'til (Take A Look Around; performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

Don't you ever get upset girl I'd like to see you sweat (Freaky Girl; performing artist: Shaggy)

Don't upset me. I'm running out of places to hide the bodies. (references; author: unknown)

What to Do About Upset Feelings (1964)

Hogan's Romance Upset (1915)

How a Horseshoe Upset a Happy Family (1912)

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Books

• It's Okay To Feel Upset, But ... (reference)

• Runaway Horses, Chickens, and Other Upset People (reference)

• The Upset Book: How to Deal With Upset People (reference)

• The Upset That Wasn't: Harry s Truman and the Crucial Election of 1948 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Bad Girls Upset by the Truth (reference)

• Upset the Upsetters [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Are you among the many American adults who have trouble digesting lactose? Then you may already know about the lactose-free products that we've developed by altering a bacterium used to make cheese and yogurt. It produces an enzyme that in turn breaks down the milk's lactose, sparing you and upset stomach. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

The sportsman upset by the recoil of his own gun (Jo. Miller). Credit: Library of Congress.

Fort Benning paratroopers. Paratroopers are picked men. This sergeant of an outfit of aerial infantry in training at Fort Benning, Georgia will help upset many Axis plans. Credit: Library of Congress.

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This organisation of the proletarians into a class, and consequently into a political party, is continually being upset again by the competition between the workers themselves. (reference)

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A third upset his basket

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Health

As the virus gets to the brain, the person may act nervous, confused, and upset. (references)

Symptoms include diarrhea, loose or watery stool, stomach cramps, and upset stomach. (references)

Everyone has a dry mouth once in a while--if they are nervous, upset or under stress. (references)

Business

The fact that where he has left his car may obstruct a bus, a trash-collection truck or even worse, an ambulance or the fire brigade, is not something he is willing to get upset about. (references)

Sector specialists applaud the passing of the new legislation, nevertheless, are upset that the government is not taking the example of many industrialized countries in the strong “subsidized” support of renewable energy. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

However, during the year, the authorities appeared to target editors, rather than journalists, for punishment when articles upset Party officials. (references)

Singapore

However, while the Government does not prohibit evangelical activities in practice, it discourages activities that might upset the balance of intercommunal relations. (references)

Kazakhstan

The law on national security defines as a threat to national security "unsanctioned gatherings, public meetings, marches, demonstrations, illegal picketing, and strikes" that upset social and political stability. (references)

Economic History

Moldova

In the presidential elections of 1996, Parliamentary speaker Petru Lucinschi surprised the nation with an upset victory over the incumbent, Mircea Snegur, in a second round of balloting. (references)

Lebanon

Events over the last decade and long-term demographic trends, however, have upset the delicate Muslim-Christian-Druze balance and resulted in greater segregation across the social spectrum. (references)

Japan

Riding a wave of grassroots desire for change, maverick politician Junichiro Koizumi won an upset victory on April 24, 2001, over former Prime Minister Hashimoto and other party stalwarts on a platform of economic and political reform. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

Rab's son blames the killing on his father's rivals inside the Awami League who were upset by party leader Sheikh Hasina's announcement that Rab would be the party's nominee for the Khulna mayoral post. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "upset": be upset ♦ be upset about ♦ become upset ♦ get upset ♦ have an upset stomach ♦ mental upset ♦ stomach upset ♦ upset price ♦ upset smb.'s apple ♦ upset smb.'s applecart ♦ upset stomach ♦ without becoming upset. Additional references.

Ending with "upset": bitterly-upset.

Afrikaans

verward (dazed, perplexed), verbysterd (dazed, perplexed), deurmekaar (dazed, perplexed), bedremmeld (dazed, perplexed). (various references)

Albanian

zënkë (contention, contest, jar, ruction, scrap, slanging match, spat, squabble, tiff), rrokullis (roll, trundle), rrëmujë (alarm, bustle, clutter, disarray, disorder, disturbance, dust, farrago, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, mess, mix up, moil, muss, pandemonium, pell mell, pie, pother, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, tumble, upheaval, welter), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), përmbysje (dislocation, fall, overturn, subversion, tumbling, upheaval), përmbys (bring about, capsize, dislocate, keel, overbear, overset, overthrow, overturn, prone, pull over, topsy turvy, uncrown, upturn), nxehje (heating), mërzitje (annoyance, aridity, boredom, frustration), derdh (discharge, disgorge, dump, effuse, ejaculate, eject, empty out, escape, found, outpour, pay in, pour, pour off, pour out, reject, run, scatter, shed, slop, spill, strew, tap, tip off), çrregulloj (confuse, derange, disarrange, disarray, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, disturb, downgrade, mess, rumple, tumble), çrregullim (bewilderment, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, dislocation, disorder, disorganization, distemper, disturbance, excess, foul up, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, mix, muddle, muss, turmoil). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرتبك (agitated, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, discomfited, disconcerted, disquieted, disturbed, embarrassed, lummox, perplexed, perturbed, puzzled, uneasy), ‏أزعج (ail, annoy, beset, bother, burn, discompose, disquiet, disrupt, distress, disturb, get in the way, get on smb.'s nerves, gig, gnaw, grate, hamper, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, infest, intrude, irk, irritate, jolt, molest, nag, niggle, obsess, offend, pain, peck, peeve, perturb, pester, plague, possess, prickle, put out, rasp, rattle, ruffle, saddle, torment, trouble, vex), ‏أقلق (agitate, beset, concern, disconcert, disquiet, distress, disturb, ferret, fret, fuss, hop, molest, obsess, peck, perturb, rile, shake up, spook, torment, trouble, undo, unhinge, unsettle, worry), ‏إنقلب (be inverted, capsize, change over, overturn, recoil, swing, tip over, topple, toss, turn over, turn turtle), ‏إفساد لنظام شيء, ‏اضطراب (welter), ‏اعتلال بسيط, ‏غلظ (coarsen, thicken), ‏أبطل (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, circumvent, counteract, countermand, defeat, extinguish, frustrate, nullify, override, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, stultify, supersede, undo, vacate, vitiate, void), ‏قلق (agitated, anxiety, anxious, apprehension, apprehensive, apprehensiveness, bother, concern, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fearful, fidget, fidgety, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, inquietude, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, worried, worry), ‏مفسد للنظام, ‏مختل (confused, defective, deranged, disturbed, faulty), ‏مضطرب (confused, deranged, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disturbed, ill at ease, jumbled, mixed up, muddled, restive, restless, rough, troubled, tumultuous, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled), ‏متقلقل (faltering, shaky, tottering, unsteady), ‏مقلوب (overturned, turned), ‏منزعج (annoyed, disturbed, irritated), ‏منفعل (agitated, bad tempered, deeply stirred, edgy, emotional, excited, influenced, irritable, nervous, on edge, on fire, palatal, passive, wrought up), ‏مهتاج (agitated, boiling, edgy, emotional, excited, irritable, nervous, raving, wrought up), ‏قلب (alter, bring down, capricious, capsize, center, centre, change, convert, core, essence, flip, heart, inversion, invert, inverting, leaf, middle, overthrow, overturn, reversal, reverse, tip, topple, transform, transformation, turn, turn about, turn around, turn inside down, turn over, turn up, upturn, whimsical). (various references)

Bulgarian 

катурвам (keel over, reverse, subvert, tip, tumble), преобръщане (inversion, reversal, roll over, upturn), прекатурен, прекатурвам (blow over, overbalance, overset, overthrow, overturn, push over, tumble, tumble down), прекатурване (capsize, roll over, tumble, turnover), безпокойство (alarm, anxiety, bother, care, concernment, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fash, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, malaise, plague, qualm, ruffle, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, whim-wham, worriment, worrit, worry), бъркотия (bungle, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disturbance, dust, farrago, fuss, hash, havoc, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry-scurry, imbroglio, involution, involvement, jumble, jungle, maze, melee, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, razzle, razzle-dazzle, rout, salmagundi, skein, snafu, tangle, tumble, uproar, welter), обезпокоявам (disturb, perturb, put out, trouble), преобръщам (invert, keel over, overbalance, overthrow, ransack, reverse, roll over, tip over, tip up), вълнение (agitation, commotion, dither, emotion, excitement, ferment, flurry, gurgitation, heartbeat, lather, nervousness, perturbation, pother, pulse, roughness, snit, stir, surge, tear, throb, to-do, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest), смущение (abashment, alarm, bewilderment, confusion, discomposure, disorder, disturbance, embarrassment, intimidation, muddle, perplexity, perturbation, ruffle, uneasiness), катурвам се (keel over, tumble), развълнуван (aflutter, agitated, astir, choppy, overwrought, perturbed, streaked, thrilled, touched, turbulent), разтревожен (all shook-up, perturbed, shook-up, streaky, unglued, worried), разстроен (distempered, het up, streaked, unglued), разстройвам (break, crack, defeat, derange, detune, disagree, disconcert, disjoint, disorder, disorganize, disrupt, distract, disturb, impair, put about, rupture, stultify, unnerve, unstring, unvoice), разстройване (circumvention, frustration), разстройство (disorganization, distemper), обръщам (bring about, cant, convert, heave, invert, jib, jibe, notice, overset, overturn, pay, prong, reflect, reverse, revert, set, slew, slue, tip, tip over, turn, turn around, turn aside, turn over, turn round, twist). (various references)

Chinese 

煩惱 (agonize, agony, annoyance, vexation, worries), 翻倒, 懊惱 (annoyed, vexed), 悵 (depressed, despair, regretful), 倒 (bankrupt, inverted, to change, to collapse, to fail, to fall, to go home, to pour, to the contrary, to tip, to topple, turn over). (various references)

Czech

uražený (injured, insulted), urazit (give offence, injure, insult, libel, offend), převržení, rozmrzelý (disgruntled, peevish, resentful, vexed), rozlít (slop, spill), rozèilený (excited, red-hot), rùznice (discord), rozmrzelost (annoyance, huff, moodiness, peevishness, resentment, unpleasantness), převrhnout (capsize, overset, overthrow, overturn, tilt), skácet (cut down, hack down, hew, overturn), převrátit (bend over, invert, overthrow, overturn, pervert, turn over, turn up, Upend), překotit (fall over, keel over, tip, topple, tumble), překazit (baffle, confound, queer, set back, thwart), neoèekávaná prohra, narušení (dislocation, disruption), dotknout se (handle, offend, touch), porušit (blemish, break, disobey, disturb, infringe, violate, vitiate), zarmoutit (distress, sadden), zvrátit (disgorge, overrule, overturn, reverse, set back), znepokojit (agitate, alarm, discompose, disconcert, disquiet, disturb), znepokojený (anxious, apprehensive, concerned, unhappy, worried), zneklidnit (disquiet, distract, unsettle), zneklidnìný (distressful, unsettled), rozrušit (derange, disturb, excite), zmařit (baffle, crush, destroy, ditch, foil, frustrate, scotch, stave off, thwart), èára přes rozpoèet, vztyèený (erect, upright), vzrušení (arousal, buzz, emotion, excitement, flutter, kick, racket, state, thrill), výstup (ascent, coming-out), smutný (dismal, distressing, doleful, elegiac, gloomy, miserable, plaintive, sad, sorrowful, tearful, unhappy, woeful, woesome), zvrat (change, reverse), rozzlobit (anger, make angry), zmatek (anarchy, bewilderment, chaos, circus, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, embroilment, fluster, hash, hodge-podge, jumble, maze, mess up, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, nonplus, non-plus, pandemonium, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, shambles, stew, tangle, tempest, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnup, welter). (various references)

Danish

materialeforkortelse ved stukning (gather, shortening, upset length), forkortelse ved boejning. (various references)

Dutch

beteuterd (dazed, perplexed, taken aback), beduusd (dazed, perplexed), bedremmeld (dazed, perplexed). (various references)

Esperanto

renversi (overthrow, turn, turn over), malsaneta (not well), konsternita (taken aback), konsterniĝinta, konfuzita (dazed, perplexed). (various references)

Faeroese

kollvelta (overthrow, turn, turn over), illa til passar (not well). (various references)

Farsi 

مضطرب کردن (Alarm, Distress), چپه کردن , نژند (Deject, Neurotic, Sad), ناراحت (Distraught, Fidgety, Tense, Uncomfortable, Uneasy, Unhandy), واژگونی (Overturn, Reversal), واژگون کردن (Overturn, Reverse, Topple), اشفته کردن (Embroil, Harrow, Mess, Puzzle, Roil), اشفته (Berserk, Disheveled, Messy, Phrenetic, Turbulent), اشفتن (Agitate, Disquiet, Disturb, Perturb, Shake, Trouble), شکست غیرمنتظره , برگرداندن (Convert, Evoke, Rebut, Reflect, Refract, Regurgitate, Repay, Retort, Return, Reverse, Turquoise, Vomit). (various references)

Finnish

sysätä kumoon (push over), mullistaa (overthrow, revolutionize, turn upside down), kumota (annul, cancel, nullify, overthrow, refute, repeal, revoke, turn, turn over), kaataa kumoon (overturn), kaataa alassuin (overturn), kaataa (fell, knock down, overturn, pour, scatter, shed, spill, strike down), kääntää ylösalaisin, järkyttää (dislodge, unsettle), hämmentää (confuse, mix, puzzle, stir). (various references)

French

renverser (up-end, upturn). (various references)

Frisian

ferbjustere (dazed, perplexed). (various references)

German

umstürzen (destroy, overthrow, overturn, to overturn, topple, turn, turn over, turn upside down), bestürzt (aghast, dismayed, distraught, filled with consternation, perplexed, shocked), unangenehm überrascht, umwerfen (bowl over, flatten, knock down, knock over, overthrow, overturn, push across, push over, stun, throw down, turn, turn over), umstoßen (change, discredit, knock over, overthrow, push down, reverse, turn, turn over), durcheinanderbringen (confound, confuse, derange, disarrange, disorganize, disturb, get into a mess, get into a muddle, jumble, mess about, mess around, mess up, mix, mix up, muddle, muddle up, tangle, tangle up, to disturb, unsettle, unsteady). (various references)

Greek 

στενοχωρώ πολύ (sadden), άνω κάτω (higgledy-piggledy, topsy turvy, upside down), αναστατώνω (confound, disorganize, disrupt, fluster), αναστατώμενοσ (jumpy, wrought up), αναποδογυρίζω (invert, keel, overturn, tip over, topple, turn inside out), ανατρέπω (buck, capsize, frustrate, invert, keel over, nullify, overbalance, overrule, overthrow, overturn, subvert, tip over, tip over 2, topple, tumble, upturn), ανατροπή (overthrow, overturn, overturning, reversal, subversion, toppling, turnover), απώλεια ελέγχου, αποδιοργάνωση (disorganization, disruption), ταραγμένος (agitated, choppy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מודאג (anxious, concerned, fretful, in a stew, troubled, uneasy, worried), מבולבל (addled, confused, disturbed, flurried, fuddled, incoherent, muddleheaded, perplexed), לשבש (cripple, derange, dislocate, disrupt, muddle, queer), להתהפך (be inverted, roll oneself, tumble, turn, turn over), להדאיג (concern, perturb, trouble, worry), לסתור (contradict, destroy, disarray, dishevel, invalidate, oppose, rebut, refute), הפכה (conversion, inversion, reversal, turnover). (various references)

Hungarian

gyengélkedés (ailment, ill health, indisposition, malaise, valetudinarianism), duzzaszt (belly, bloat, swelled, swollen, to swell, to upset), duzzasztott (bulbous), emésztést megzavar (to upset), felborít (capsize, overset, overthrow, to blow over, to bowl over, to cant, to capsize, to push over, to roll over, to tilt, to tip over, to tumble down, to turn over), felborulás (tipping, turning over, turnover), feldúl (Harry, reave, reive, to devastate, to forage, to harry, to ravage, to upset, to waste), felfordít (to bowl over, to cant, to dislocate, to invert, to overturn, to reverse, to roll over, to turn over, tumble), felfordulás (cataclysm, clutter, combustion, commotion, confusion, convulsions, earthquake, hoo-ha, hoopla, huddle, hurly burly, hurly-burly, hurry-skurry, mess, mix, mix-up, muddle, muss, subversion, tangled skein, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, upheaval, upsetting, whoop-de-doo), fellök (drive up, to push over, to upset), dühös (angry, furious, hot, irate, ratty, shirty, sick, to be choked, to be in a pet, venomous, waxy, Wroth), felzaklat (to thrill, to upset), zömített, keresztülhúz (to upset), kihoz a sodrából (outface, to discomfit, to disorient, to disorientate, to ruffle, to upset), légösszekötő feltörés, megárt (do harm to, to upset), megzavarja a lelki egyensúlyát (to upset), megzavarja a lelki nyugalmát (to upset), tömörített (compact, compacted), torlaszt (to upset), zömít (to upset), feltörés szénben. (various references)

Indonesian

mengacak-acak (mess up, put in disorder), membuncah, kalap (bewitched, enchanted, perplexed, possessed, puzzled), kaget (frightened, staggered, startled, surprised), berang (anger, angry, irate). (various references)

Italian

rovesciare (capsize, down, Evert, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, pour, reverse, shower, slop, spill, spill out, tip, topple, tumble, turn, turn inside out, turn over), turbato (dazed, distraught, disturbed, disturbing, perplexed), confuso (abashed, addled, confounded, confused, dazed, fuzzy, haywire, hazy, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indistinct, messy, pell mell, perplexed, promiscuous, shamefaced, woolly, wooly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

転倒 (falling down, inversion, invert, reverse, tumbling, turn over), 顛覆 (overthrow, overturn, turning over), 顛倒 (falling down, inversion, invert, reverse, tumbling, turn over), 番狂わせ (surprise, unexpected result). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ばんくるわせ (surprise, unexpected result), てんぷく (capsizing, heavenly blessing, overthrow, overturn, turning over), てんとう (a tip, counter, destiny, divine justice, falling down, inversion, invert, lighting, nodding, over-the-counter, Providence, reverse, shop, shop front, the sun, tumbling, turn over, way of heaven). (various references)

Korean 

전복 (Overthrowing). (various references)

Malay

bingung (dazed, perplexed). (various references)

Norwegian

kantre (capsize, overthrow, turn, turn over). (various references)

Pig Latin

etupsay.(various references)

Portuguese

entornar (dump, effuse, flow, overthrow, pour, pour in, pour out, put about, scatter, spill, turn over), capotagem (capsize), chateado, chatear (annoy, bore, pester), contrariar (antagonize, balk, contradict, counteract, counterwork, displeasure, frustrate, nark, oppose, ruffle, spite, tease, thwart), deitarporterra (overthrow, turn over), derribar (overthrow, turn over), derrota (balk, defeat, discomfiture, licking, loss, overthrow, rout, thrashing), derrubar (down, fell, floor, grass, hew, hew down, knock, knock down, lay, overset, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, pull down, put down, shoot down, subvert, throw, tumble, unbuild), desconcertado (cheap, disconcerted), descontrolado (jazz, unbridled), desordem (affray, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, disorder, donnybrook, fray, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurry-scurry, jumble, litter, mess, misrule, muddle, mush, muss, pandemonium, pell-mell, perturbation, riot, rough-and-tumble, rout, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scuffle, stir, topsy-turvy, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, uproar), desorganizar (disarrange, disarray, dislocate, disorganize, overset, translocate), capotado, encurtamento interfacial, voltar-se (capsize, turn over), perda de controlo, perturbar (agitate, break, cloud, commove, confound, confuse, depolarise, derange, disarray, disquiet, disturb, faze, flurry, fluster, harass, incommode, mess, overturn, perturb, pother, pull down, puzzle, ruffle, shake, throw-out, toss, trouble, unbalance, unhinge, unsettle), prejudicar (bane, crack, damage, damnify, disserve, encroach, harm, hinder, hurt, impair, inhibit, injure, jeopard, jeopardize, pocket, prejudice, prevent, queer, scathe, spoil), queda (cloud-burst, come-down, debacle, decay, descent, downfall, fallback, falling, letdown, mucker, overthrow, prolapse, purler, spill, tumble, tumbling), revirar (overthrow, turn over), ruína (breakdown, cloud-burst, collapse, confusion, crash, curse, decay, destruction, deterioration, devastation, dilapidation, disrepair, doom, downfall, lurch, overthrow, overturn, perdition, rack, ravage, ruin, ruination, shipwreck, smash, undoing, waste, wrack, wreck), tombo (mucker, spill, tumbling), transtornar (derange, disarray, discompose, distune, incommode, unhinge, unsettle), triste (bleak, blue, broken-hearted, cheerless, dark, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, dumpish, dumpy, gaunt, gloomily, gray, grey, joyless, lonesome, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, misty, moody, mopish, mourning, pained, painful, pensive, piteous, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sore, sorrowful, sorry, tearful, tristful, unhappy), virada, virado (over, turned, upside down), virar (bend, capsize, overset, slew, slue round, spill, spin, swing, throw, tilt, tip, tip-over, topple, turn, turn around, turn round), voltar (come, come again, come back, come up with, go back, overset, overthrow, return, run back, slue round, tip-over, turn, turn around, turn over, turn round, wamble), distúrbio (commotion, disturbance, riot, ruction, stir, trouble, turbulence). (various references)

Romanian

uşor bolnav (indisposed, queer), necaz (annoyance, bother, cankerworm, care, cross, difficulty, distress, evil, furnace, gall, grief, grudge, handful, infliction, mess, mischief, need, pain, resentment, Ruth, sorrow, spite, suffering, trouble, vexation, worriment), întoarce pe dos, bucluc (adversity, affliction, bother, calamity, coil, cross, disgrace, embarrassment, jam, quagmire, scrape, tribulation, trouble), consterna (consternate, dismay), contrariat (annoyed, vexed), deranjat (deranged, disturbed), descumpãni (abash, disconcert, outstare, unbalance), dezordine (clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disturbance, disturbances, glory-hole, havoc, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, mess, misrule, motley, riot, riots, rough, rout, topsy turvy, tumble, welter), emoţionat (excited, excitedly, feverish, soulful, touched), încurcãturã (abashment, confusion, difficulty, encumbrance, entanglement, fix, hash, involution, involvement, loss, lost, mess, mire, mishmash, morass, perplexity, pretty kettle of fish, puzzle, scrape, stew, tangle, trouble), mişcat (affected, excited, touched), zãticnealã (disturbance, trouble), neliniştit (agitated, anxious, anxiously, broken, concerned, disquiet, fidgety, restive, restless, sorrowful, troubled, uneasily, uneasy, unquiet, unquietly, worried), neplãcere (disgust, displeasure, harassment, inconvenience, nuisance, trouble), rãscolit, rãsturna (capsize, coup, invert, lay low, overthrow, overturn, reverse, rummage, scatter, snooker, spill, subvert, throw down, tilt, topple, tumble, turn), rãsturnare (overthrow, spill, tip, upheaval, upsetting), rãsturnat (head over heels, scattered, upside down), rãvãşit (littery, scattered, topsy turvy, troubled), tulbura (agitate, bewilder, cloud, confuse, disconcert, distract, disturb, flurry, flutter, fret, incommode, indispose, interrupt, intrude upon, Mar, muddle, muddy, perturb, puddle, ripple, stir, trouble, vex, worry), indispus (ailing, distempered, hipped, in a pet, indisposed, Moody, out of order, out of temper, poorly, queer, seedy, unwell). (various references)

Russian 

нарушать (contravene, disrupt, entrench, infringe, intrench, renege, screw up, transgress, trespass against, trouble, violate, violating). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzrujan (agitated, distraught, nervous, overwrought), uznemiriti (acerbate, alarm, bother, discompose, disconcert, disturb, hound, intrude, perturb, pester, put out, put smb. out, trouble, unsettle, vex), uznemirenje (disconcerting, disturbance, feeze, perturbation, trouble, turn over, vexation), uznemiren (disconcerted, disquieted, disturbed, perturbed, queasy, troubled, uneasy, unsettled, vexed), uznemiravati (bother, disturb, harass, inconvenience, trouble), uzrujati (agitate, get excited, ruffle, surge), rastrojiti (derange, distract, unnerve, unstring), iznenaditi (startle, surprise, take aback), metež (helter-skelter, hubbub, pell mell, pother, scuffle, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uproar), nasekirati (bedevil, irk, vex, worry), potresti (agitate, convulse, jar, shake, shock), prevrnut (upturned), prevrnuti (capsize, overturn, roll over, tip over, upturn), gaditi se (disgust, loathe, nauseate, wamble), rastrojen (deranged, distracted), senzacija (bombshell, furor, furore, sensation), tangirati, prevrtanje (capsize, nose over, overturn, turnover). (various references)

Spanish

indispuesta (not well), trastornar (derange, dislocate, disorder, overthrow, overturn, shake, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, unsettle). (various references)

Swedish

välta (log pile, overbalance, overthrow, roll, spill, tumble over), stjälpa (cant, knock over, overturn, topple, torpedo, turn over), kullkasta (defeat, disconcert, explode, foil, overthrow, play up with, scupper, wreck). (various references)

Turkish

bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour), alabora etmek (capsize, keel over), alabora olma, altüst etmek (agitate, bedevil, clutter, clutter up, depolarise, disappoint, disorganize, disturb, knock galley-west, make havoc of, overset, overturn, play havoc with, play the deuce with, ransack, run upside down, screw up, turn about, turn around, turn under, Upend, upturn, work havoc), altüst olmak (take smth. to heart), altüst olmuş (disorganized), beklenmedik yenilgi, bozgun (beating, cropper, debacle, defeat, discomfiture, fiasco, rout, stampede), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, deranged, dirty, disappointed, dished, disordered, distorted, doric, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, foul, gone, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, touched, unsound, vicious, wrong), üzgün (afflicted, aggrieved, bleak, careworn, chagrined, crestfallen, dejected, downcast, downhearted, glum, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, pained, regretful, rueful, sad, sick at heart, sorrowful, sorry, stricken, tearful, troubled, unhappy, worried), bozulma (breach, breakdown, breakup, confusion, corrosion, corruption, decay, declension, decomposition, deformation, degeneration, degradation, derogation, deterioration, devolution, disfiguration, disfigurement, disruption, dissolution, impairment, infection, pollution, putrefaction, rancidity, rancidness, rottenness, shipwreck, spoilage, taint, undoing), keyfini kaçırmak (discomfort, dispirit, flatten, give the pips, indispose, miff), bozulmuş (abashed, broken down, cankered, contaminated, corrupt, degenerate, flyblown, gone, out, putrid, rank, ropy, ruined, spoilt, unmade, withered, wrecked), bulandırmak (blur, cloud, darken, dim, muddy, trouble, turn), bulanmış (sick), devirme (knock down, overturn, overturning, turn over), devirmek (capsize, chop down, crumple, cut down, defeat, down, give smth. a tip, knock, knock back, knock down, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, quaff off, revolutionize, shift, strike down, subvert, take down, tilt, tip, topple, topple over), devrilme (being overturned, overturn, turn over), devrilmek (fall, fall from, fall over, overset, overturn, tilt over, tip, tip over, topple, topple down, topple over, tumble, tumble down, turn over, turn turtle), devrilmiş (turned down), karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, wooliness, woolliness), bozukluk (being broken down, chicken feed, coin, decomposition, defect, deformity, distortion, disturbance, failure, faultiness, foulness, hilliness, irregularity, putrescence, rupture, small chance, taint, unsoundness). (various references)

Turkmen 

rahatsyzlanmak (alarmed, anxious, be upset), periюan bolmak (be upset). (various references)

Ukrainian

стривожений (anxious, disturbed, harassed, solicitous, uptight, vexed, worrisome), сварка (altercation, broil, controversy, embroilment, jangle, muss, odds, quarrel, shindy, squabble), руйнування (bad, breaking, caries, collapse, demolition, destruction, the sword, wrack, wrecking), розстроювати (baffle, derange, detune, disorder, distune, frustrate, overset, unnerve), визначений (appointed, clear-cut, definite, determined, established, predestinate, regulation), засмучувати (afflict, aggravate, aggrieve, chagrin, chill, discompose, dishearten, dispirit, grieve, oppress, rue, sadden, unsettle), безладдя (bewilderment, chaos, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disorder, hoity toity, huddle, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, mix, moil, pell mell, pellmell, puddle, racket, shambles, sozzle, topsy turvy, welter), перекинутий (inverted), перекидатися (bandy, battledore, fall over, keel over, overset, overturn, somersault, tipple, trip, tumble), перекидати (capsize, kick about, overrun, overset, overthrow, overturn, push over, tip over, trip), перекидання (canting, capsize, flip flap, move, movement, somersault, tumble, turnover), падіння (bathos, come down, cracker, demission, downfall, drop, dropping, fall, falling, labefaction, subsidence, tumble). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tình trạng rối loạn sự bối rối, sự lật úp, sự lật đổ (overthrew, overthrow, overthrown, overturn, subversion), sự lúng túng sự c i lộn, sự đổ (ullage), sự đánh ng tình trạng lộn xộn. (various references)

Welsh

dymchwelyd (overthrow, subvert), chwalfa (rout). (various references)

commota, commotae, commotaque, commoti, commotis, commotum, commotus, commoveantur, commoveat, commoveatur, commovebantur, commovebit, commovebitur, commovebo, commovebor, commovebuntur, commovendum, commoventes, commoventur, commoveo, commovere, commoveretur, commoveri, commoverit, commoverunt, commovet, commovi, commovisti, commovit, confudisset, confudisti, confudistis, confudit, confundam, confundamur, confundamus, confundantur, confundar, confundaris, confundas, confundat, confundatur, confunde, confundebat, confundemini, confundens, confundentur, confundere, confunderis, confundet, confundetur, confundimini, confundit, confunditis, confunditur, confundor, confusa, confusi, confusum, confusus, conturba, conturbabant, conturbabar, conturbabimini, conturbabis, conturbabit, conturbabuntur, conturbamini, conturbant, conturbaret, conturbaris, conturbas, conturbasti, conturbat, conturbata, conturbatae, conturbati, conturbatum, conturbatumque, conturbatur, conturbatus, conturbaverunt, conturbavit, conturbemini, conturbent, conturbentur, conturbet, conturbo, perculsi, sollicita, sollicite, solliciti, sollicitorum, sollicitum, sollicitus, turbo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "upset": upsets, upsetter, upsetters, upsetting. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Upset" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hupsith, Ipsenta, Kuptsev, Opseth, Opssat, Pusat, Pussot, Puste, spuet, uesat, ukstu, upseat, upsot. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: setup, stupe.

-1 letter: pest, pets, puts, sept, spue, step, suet, supe, tups.

-2 letters: pes, pet, pus, put, set, sue, sup, tup, ups, use, uts.

-3 letters: es, et, pe, up, us, ut.

+1 letter: erupts, getups, letups, purest, putzes, septum, setups, stupes, taupes, unstep, upsent, upsets, upstep.

+2 letters: cuspate, deputes, dispute, impetus, imputes, metumps, outsped, pasteup, pasture, peanuts, penults, petasus, petrous, piquets, piteous, pluteus, posture, pouters, precuts, proteus, pullets, pulsate, puniest, punkest, punnets, punster, punters, punties, pupates, puppets, pustule, puttees, putters, putties, reputes, septums, spouted, spouter, spurted, spurtle, sputter, stipule, stumped, stumper, stupefy, subtype, sumpter, suspect, takeups, teacups, toupees, troupes, tuneups, tupelos, unspent, unsteps, unswept, upbeats, updates, uprates, upstage, upstare, upstate, upsteps, upswept, uptakes, uptears, uptimes.